API Security Basics: Keys, Scopes and Signed Links
How API keys, scopes, signed webhooks and signed links protect business data, and the everyday habits that stop a leaked key from becoming a data breach.
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APIs, webhooks and security, explained for the people who decide, not just the people who build.
How API keys, scopes, signed webhooks and signed links protect business data, and the everyday habits that stop a leaked key from becoming a data breach.
Duplicate customers and double invoices come from retries and missing IDs, not careless people. How idempotency keys and external references keep integrated systems clean, with a worked example.
A webhook is a message one system sends another the moment something happens. How webhooks work, why they beat polling, and how to handle retries, duplicates and out-of-order events safely.
An integration API lets your other systems create records in your business software and hear about changes, without exports and retyping. What it does, what it costs to build on, and what to ask before you commit.